Update: Me and My New MacBook Air

In July of this year, I bought my first Apple product, an M2 MacBook Air. The intention was to see if the laptop could replace my aging, ailing Windows PC. As I suspected, the transition to macOS has been cumbersome, and quite annoying at times. Here it is weeks later, and I’m still in the process of transition. Two pieces of financial software are yet to be moved to the laptop. I would like to say that process will go smoothly, but I have had several surprises about how hard it is to set up something on a Mac after doing it so easily on a PC.

Read More

My Coffee Story

I was introduced to the concept of coffee when I was a child. They would not let me drink it, but I got to smell it percolating on the stove, and I watched my father drink his black coffee and I watched my mother drink her coffee with cream and sugar.

I begged them. But mama always said no, “Donnie, you are too young to drink coffee.”

Read More